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Kane & Lynch: Dead Men

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Kane & Lynch: Dead Men
Kane & Lynch: Dead Men cover
Developers
IO Interactive
Publishers
Eidos Interactive
Japan Spike Chunsoft
Engines
Glacier
Release dates
Windows November 13, 2007
Reception
Metacritic 67
Taxonomy
Genres TPS
Series Kane & Lynch
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Kane & Lynch: Dead Men on Wikipedia
Kane & Lynch
Kane & Lynch: Dead Men 2007
Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days 2010

Warnings

For Games for Windows - LIVE on Windows 8 or later, install the latest Games for Windows - LIVE software.

General information

Square Enix Forums - Kane & Lynch: Dead Men section
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
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SecuROM DRM
Windows
Publisher website
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Kane & Lynch Collection. Contains both Kane & Lynch: Dead Men and Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days and their respective DLC. Only Kane & Lynch: Dead Men uses Games for Windows Live.
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Windows
Amazon.com (unavailable)
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Windows
Green Man Gaming (unavailable)
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Windows
Humble Store (unavailable)
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Steam (unavailable)
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Windows
All versions require Games for Windows - LIVE DRM.[Note 1]
Steam version has been temporarily delisted.[1]

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Skip intro
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Movies.
  2. Delete all files starting with M00_Intro.

Play without Games for Windows - LIVE

Play without GFWL[2]
  1. Download the replacement xlive.dll.
  2. Extract into <path-to-game>.

Notes

Can only be used in single-player.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\kaneandlynch\main.ini
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/8080/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\kaneandlynch\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/8080/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

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Video settings
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Advanced video settings

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
See the WSGF entry.
Ultra-widescreen
Any custom resolution and aspect ratio works including 21:9 and 32:9 as long as aspect ratio and resolution is changed in the main.ini file. Alternatively use czarman's fix.
4K Ultra HD
HUD does not scale well.
Field of view (FOV)
See 16:9 resolutions have a narrow FOV compared to 4:3 resolutions
Windowed
Add Window 1 line at the end of main.ini.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Launch the game in windowed mode and use Borderless Gaming.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Up to 16x.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Up to 8x MSAA.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
No framerate cap without v-sync.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Using ReShade and this: http://skyrim-beautification-project.com/kanelynch/index.htm

Input

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Input settings

Audio

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Audio settings

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Effects, Speech, Music, Ambience
Surround sound
Up to 7.0 output through OpenAL or DirectSound3D restoration software.
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support
EAX 3[3]

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Brazilian Portuguese
Unofficial translation; TriboGamer.
Spanish
Russian
Retail only. Patch for digital release here.
Polish
Retail only. Patch for digital release here.

Network

Online features require a Microsoft account (optional for offline play).
Co-op component is available in local play (split screen) only.

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
2 Co-op
Co-op version of single-player campaign.
LAN play
Online play
8

Issues fixed

Gamepad not recognized

The Registry Editor allows users to edit the Windows registry.
  1. Push Win+R, type regedit, then click OK.
  2. Push Win+F3 And search OEMNAME.
  3. Replace OEMNAME with XBOX 360 Controller for Windows.

Notes

If using a DualShock 4 Controller, try using DS4Windows instead.

Stuttering

Use DirectInput FPS Fix.
  1. Download DirectInput FPS Fix.
  2. Extract into <path-to-game>.
  3. Run the game.
Use DInput8Wrapper
  1. Download DInput8Wrapper.
  2. Extract into <path-to-game>.
  3. Run the game.
Use Windows Device Manager.
  1. Push Win+R, type devmgmt.msc, then click OK.
  2. Find Human Interface Devices in the list and double click on it.
  3. Right-click and disable the ones on the list with HID-compliant device in their name.
  4. (Optional) Try disabling HID-compliant consumer control device as well, if this doesn't work.
  5. Run the game.

This solution is more time consuming but for some people it works when the first two fixes do not work

Notes

Reverse the changes, when done playing.
Features such as side buttons or special keys, might not work during the game.

Crash on startup

Update GFWL client[citation needed]

Crash to desktop after the first campaign loading screen

Head into the main menu audio options and change the Sound Render from OpenAL to DIRECTSOUND[4]

Also, Go into the save game location and edit the main.ini file, set the resolution to your monitors native resolution, set the correct aspect ratio for your native resolution. DSR(nvidia) may not work. Creating custom resolutions does work.

Change Use EAX from 1 to 0.

16:9 resolutions have a narrow FOV compared to 4:3 resolutions

Use the Kane & Lynch 16:9 FOV Fix.[5]
  1. Download the fix from here along with ThirteenAG's Universal ASI Loader and optionally Zolika1351's GFWL Protection Disabler if using GFWL.
  2. Drag eASIer.asi and eASIer.txt to the root directory of K&L alongside UAL's dinput8.dll and GPD's GFWLProtectionDisabler2019.asi (if using GFWL Protection Disabler).
  3. Run the game.

Notes

The number 246 in the eASIer.txt file can be changed up or down to a max of 255 to increase or decrease FOV accordingly.
This is only tested on the Steam release.

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio OpenAL, DirectSound3D May fall back to DirectSound3D if no OpenAL32.dll is detected in c:\SysWOW64.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP SP2, Vista
Processor (CPU) AMD Athlon XP 1800+
Intel Pentium 4 2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 7 GB
Video card (GPU) ATI Radeon X1300
Nvidia GeForce 6600
128 MB of VRAM


Notes

  1. Games for Windows - LIVE DRM features: Legacy activation, supports local profiles.
  2. 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/8080/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (8080) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References